- Percentage of poor children in public schools is greater than in catchment area.
- Racial composition of school zone is strongly related to economic composition of schools.
- The difference between school poverty rate and the poverty rate of the corresponding catchment area is greater if the school is majority non-white.
- Poor children are more concentrated in schools with a higher poverty rate than they would be if all children attended their local public school
- Black and Hispanic children attend schools with drastically higher poverty rates than that which exists in their residential areas.